"Plea for Help Regarding Bush Wars" Topic

All,

You may have noticed that I've just begun a modern Imagi-nation/alternate history, and it will largely feature various brushes with low-intensity conflict. The bottom line is that I need scenario fodder/inspiration to keep it fresh and provide new ideas. What do you recommend I read?

Please note: I am not interested in any of the approximately 8 million memoirs/autobiographies out there. That is, I'm not interested in any human's background or thoughts, love interests, family, etc… I am looking purely for a source for scenarios, and lots of them; I accept that a memoir may have what I'm looking for, and I'll gladly take a look so long as it has what I'm looking for, and isn't just (as so many of them are, in my experience) 'the life and times of Colonel So-And-So,' heavy on his hard-lovin', hard fightin', hard drinkin' life, but very thin on actual information on the fighting (ideally with sketches/maps).

So, I beg for your guidance in books to read on 'bush wars' that will give me lots of ideas for company-level scenarios to play out on the tabletop. I'm looking for anything from the Banana Wars in the 1920s up to present, on any continent, from any perspective (i.e., government, rebel, insurgent, revolutionary, etc…).

Thanks in advance for your help.

V/R,
Jack

Try joining the Modern African Bushwars yahoo group. Lots going on there.

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Very good descriptions of C Squadron actions

mad mike haors book congo mercenary is a good start

Willem Steenkamp's "Borderstrike!" gives a good account of South African involvement in Angola in 1978. It is full of sketch maps of the engagements described.

Read Mad Mike's book as a teen was inspiring.

TFL's B'Maso is excellent! Full of scenarios and background info to various conflicts.

Thanks fellas, I'll have to start digging into some of this stuff. I appreciate you taking the time.

V/R,
Jack